"If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains." - Florentine Histories; III : 13
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Alright, I am aware this may come of as a bit too all of a sudden. But please, for a moment, listen seriously to the question that I'm about to ask and think about the answer carefully.
So, the question: Is everyone truly equal or not?
These days, all societies are really fond of talking about equality. In the past, the great Roman orator and philosopher Cicero once said, "All men are created equal."; People call for men and women to be treated as equal hence then whine for society to get rid of inequality. They asked to have high staffing rates for women, private cars for everyone and they went to find fault with the order of the rosters. People even advocated the equality for people with disabilities and now society is forced not to use the term "disabled". Children are taught that everyone is equal.
Is that true though? I wonder.
Truth be told, men and women have different roles when they have different abilities; people with disabilities are still disabled, no matter what kind of euphemistic term that people use to describe them. However, all of this means nothing if no one wants to pay attention.
In other words, my answer for the question is "No."
To be human means to be an unequal living being;
No one is truly 'the same'.
Therefore, if you have thought that people are equal, this is a mere fantasy, thus not really dependent on whether someone is truly the same or not.
A wise man once said, "God does not make anyone above or below one another." But that doesn't mean everyone is equal. And also, did you know that the quote doesn't simply stop there? The rest goes like this: Everyone is equal at birth, but then I ask, why are there differences in occupation and social status? And it is written in the second half of this passage, the infamous work of Yukichi Fukuzawa, "Gakumon no Susume". So, Is it a difference because one is struggling with academics or rather that one is not trying hard enough?
A difference is made there.
That's the famous "scholarship study". These teachings have not changed at all, even in the modern age of 2015. However, it happens that the situation is much more complex and becomes more serious. After all, we humans are living and thinking creatures. I don't think it's necessarily correct to say that people have to only live by pure instinct simply because things aren't fair for them. In other words, the word equality is full of lies and is deceitful at best, but inequality is also the truth that remains difficult to to accept. And until now, I have been trying for a long time to find new answers of the eternal problems that humanity still faces until today.
But such questions instill, especially as for the matter that equality determines whether someone is innately gifted or simply a pure illusion created by us humans.
So this seems like a tougher, or perhaps more thought-provoking question than the original question. Because whether someone is equal or not is a matter of degree whereas people are looking for something related to its skills as a human being. However, it may seem tedious to ask this yet another question, so please listen to this question I ask again and think more carefully.
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DECEIT: Prodigious Defect
Fanfiction"Born with innate talent to tell and reveal lies." We were put into this merciless reality to clash against each other. And those whom may have lived their life in a pure bliss would never realize how they were used as devices for the mere entertain...
